Andrea had asked about book club books on Twitter, and since I have a list of books, I thought I would post, even though she was mostly asking M. (Is it butting in when the post is on Twitter?) :)

Here are the books that our book club has read that I would recommend. Either they were good, great, or at least they sparked interesting discussions. I removed books that I didn't like or didn't lead to good discussions.

Things in my life have been too complex and serious and sad to post about. I might someday. I might not. BUT, tonight I went to see Robin Hood, and i had to share with y'all.

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When you start out a movie called "Robin Hood" by killing both King Richard and then ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY himself, you know it's going to be a long 2.5 hours. I'm not one that thinks you can't take a varied and rather flexible, hidden in the mists of time story like Robin and make it your own. But it seems to me that you'd want to retain SOME of the charm and character of the original.

Apparently not.

I am too tired to go into detail but let me say this: when I saw Sherlock Holmes (esp the previews), I said, "Looks like a good movie, just not very much like Sherlock Holmes." With this one I would say, "Not really a very good movie, and, oh, not very much like Robin Hood. At all."

Things in my life have been too complex and serious and sad to post about. I might someday. I might not. BUT, tonight I went to see Robin Hood, and i had to share with y'all.

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When you start out a movie called "Robin Hood" by killing both King Richard and then ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY himself, you know it's going to be a long 2.5 hours. I'm not one that thinks you can't take a varied and rather flexible, hidden in the mists of time story like Robin and make it your own. But it seems to me that you'd want to retain SOME of the charm and character of the original.

Apparently not.

I am too tired to go into detail but let me say this: when I saw Sherlock Holmes (esp the previews), I said, "Looks like a good movie, just not very much like Sherlock Holmes." With this one I would say, "Not really a very good movie, and, oh, not very much like Robin Hood. At all."

I just opened Ethan's "President's Award for Educational Excellence" (must score "Advanced" on either LA or Math part of standardized test--Ethan got it in both, and maintain an A- average for the entire 5th grade year) and in addition to the certificate there is a letter from Barack Obama. I know it's a copy, but I was really touched and I don't think E has even seen it yet.

I just opened Ethan's "President's Award for Educational Excellence" (must score "Advanced" on either LA or Math part of standardized test--Ethan got it in both, and maintain an A- average for the entire 5th grade year) and in addition to the certificate there is a letter from Barack Obama. I know it's a copy, but I was really touched and I don't think E has even seen it yet.